Wolves Wild

This year’s growth of stalk and leaf from a cow parsley.

Canalside rushes flowering. The blur in the artier picture above is from the movement of the plant in the gusty wind. The other shot was of a more sheltered plant just yards further along the bank.

Spotted a couple of days ago by the Stafford Road / M54 roundabout, a spot where they grow regularly. These are the first wild poppies I’ve noticed this year.

Right by the path near Tettenhall Ranger Station in the Smestow Valley LNR, so possibly an escapee from those which have been planted on the platform.

With paired leaf buds further down the stem.

The first set of ducklings I have spotted this season, last Thursday. The mother duck was cautiously keeping them by the other bank of the canal.